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TOKEN: Early Bird Gets the Token
Every Friday when new homework is assigned, students can volunteer to do the homework by Monday’s discussion. They submit the blog post form early and the class gets to talk about their example. These “early birds” will receive a … Continue reading
BLOG: Mind Mapping and Creativity Process
This assignment is about exploring our subconscious in the role of creativity for problem solving. Please follow the process carefully so that your subconscious has time to work. The challenge is to create a MindMap to solve a serious problem … Continue reading
Unit 2: The Science of Color
Explore… Read… Due… Colors In Cultures color science videos below (~5 minutes total) McCloud: Ch. 8 Ware: Ch. 4 Blog: Mind Map (due Thur 2/18 11:59pm) Quiz #2(due Sun 2/14 11:59pm) Sir Isaac Newton’s Color Experiment clip from the San … Continue reading
Blog Problems and Solutions Recap
If you’re having problems with your blog, read on. Thank you to Dully, Lilly, Ava, Lexi, John, Justin and other students for helping share these issues that you may run into while submitting tonight’s BlogWork. Q. My blog post is … Continue reading
01-2 Visualizing Relationships (Mind Maps)
Great job with visualizing your networks on Monday. Hope you all had a chance to walk among trees and interact with real people from your networks despite the snow! For Thursday’s sketch participation, please upload a MindMap about what inspires … Continue reading
01-1 Visualizing Relationships
For Monday’s sketch participation, please upload a drawing about your people network. Explore how to use sensory elements– points, lines, colors, and shapes to make the relationships visible. Try to avoid using too much text. Upload your sketch to: Section … Continue reading
01-0 Visual Communication and Creative Thinking
Dear students, Here are the lecture notes for Thursday’s class. Please try out the fun visual exercises (it’s better with a friend). Also remember to submit the class participation sketch for our online discussion. I also plan to have office … Continue reading
About WordPress (for those new to using WordPress)
WordPress is a “content management system” that organizes text and times. You may think that you never used a Content Management System (CMS) but that’s what Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook basically are. You will need to create a WordPress site … Continue reading
0 – Introduction to Comm165 & Team Lists
Great to meet you all yesterday! Here’s the presentation to refresh your thoughts from our meeting. There is no class participation prompt in the slides below, as that will go out in the next set of slides before Thursday’s class. … Continue reading
BLOG: Post an original image in your WordPress Blog
Tip: read the entire post and checklist before starting! Overview: Create a blog for this class. Then make an original image in your sketchbook and post it in your blog. Then write a short blog post describing what is interesting … Continue reading